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  1. Re:Shall we talk about FOIA or this game? on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I'm playing the game right now, and it's the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

    Far be it from me to tell you and your enormous balls how to have fun, but I'd steer clear of any Flash being served up by fbi.gov.

  2. Re: Managers like to stalk on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 2

    If they drive top talent away then good as productivity goes up by an H1B1 because they are cheaper anyway etc.

    It's never productive to have flu in the office, anyone with H1B1 should be telecommuting.

  3. I assume they say could not instead of

    For the last time, it's "could not instead've!"

  4. It says right there in the summary: "a requirement that the company only ship products used daily by billions of people." Billions of people don't use robotic arms every day, nor are they likely to start anytime soon.

    On the bright side, at least the robot didn't have to pass the breakfast test.

  5. Documentation seems lacking on Google Releases Open Source 'Cartographer' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The only documentation I can find gives some bare bones installation instructions, then refers back to itself, claiming to be the "complete documentation." What am I missing?

  6. Overly optimistic on Krebs Warns Source Code Leaked From Massive IoT Botnet Attack (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Krebs predicts "there will soon be many Internet users complaining to their ISPs about slow Internet speeds as a result of hacked IoT devices on their network hogging all the bandwidth. On the bright side, if that happens it may help to lessen the number of vulnerable systems."

    Yeah, I doubt it.

    Customer: My internet is slow.
    Comcast: I'm knowing how frustrating that is because I'm being a Comcast customer too! Did you rebooting your modem?
    Customer: Yes, my internet is still slow.
    Comcast: Let me to be sending the signal to your modem!
    Customer: Didn't do anything, my internet is still slow.
    Comcast: I'm knowing how frustrating that is because I'm being a Comcast customer too! Did you rebooting your modem?
    Customer: Yes, 5 minutes ago while I was talking to you! My internet is still slow.
    Comcast: Let me to be sending the signal to your modem!

  7. Re:The way to do it on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems like a misguided solution to the problem. If someone steals the card, then this feature won't help.

    I've had credit cards compromised 3 times over the years but it's never been because the physical card was stolen. Is that really a common problem in the grand scheme of things? From an American perspective, most ID theft tends to happen when some merchant is breached and thousands or millions of stored numbers+CVV get leaked. This approach makes those leaks useless. Sure, some people will still lose their wallet or get their purse stolen, but that's small potatoes in terms of the fraud that goes on every day.

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  9. Re: Whoopty Doo on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sanders' supporters are unrealistic live-in-mom's-basement people who want free stuff and don't know what they're talking about

    That's not at all what she was saying. She was saying many of them are still living with their parents because, after incurring large debts to attend college, they can't find a job, so they can't make any money to pay back the loans or move out on their own.

  10. Re:RTFA, please. on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    sysv init is mature. The kinks were generally ironed out decades ago. It works. And it sure hasn't had any resource exhaustion or denial of service bugs lately.

    systemd is attempting to reinvent the wheel, while simultaneously reinventing the concept of what a circle is. In the process, it's reinventing a lot of bugs. What possible incentive would I have to switch from an old, rock solid, trusted init system to an agile, unproven, buggy one?

  11. So you think she planned to kill the company in the long run to make herself look good in the short run?

    That's precisely what CEOs of public companies are hired to do now. Pump the share price as high as possible as quickly as possible, damn the consequences, and then bail with a golden parachute.

  12. Re:Null route automation is possible... apk on Akamai Kicked Journalist Brian Krebs' Site Off Its Servers After He Was Hit By a Record Cyberattack (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Proper egress filtering by consumer ISPs would stop most of the DNS/NTP/etc amplification attacks overnight. There's absolutely no reason any packets should be leaving, say, Comcast's network with an Akamai source IP on them. But this isn't an amplification attack, at least according to the previous article. This is apparently the old style DDoS, think LOIC, many thousands of hosts making "legitimate" (as far as the TCP transaction is concerned) connections, exhausting resources, sending giant requests, etc.

  13. Re:A link that grabbed an IP address? on FBI Agent Posing As Journalist To Deliver Malware To Suspect Was Fine, Says DOJ (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    During subsequent online
    communications, the undercover agent sent the individual links to a fake news
    article and photographs that had the computer program concealed within them.
    The individual activated the computer program when he clicked on the link to the
    photographs, thereby revealing his location to the FBI.

    Is this saying the FBI has weaponized a zero-day whereby opening a specially crafted image file can cause code execution? I'm not sure how else to make sense of that paragraph.

  14. Re: Stupid business model + stupid practices = ___ on ClixSense Suffers Massive Data Breach, 6.6 Million Users Compromised (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You might be surprised who falls for scams like "Now hiring data entry workers, work from home with no credit or background check! Get started today, click here to submit your application and $5 processing fee." It's not rich people who get suckered $5 at a time by those offers, it's desperate people, and this list will contain a lot of desperate people.

  15. Re:Non-removable battery = bad business risk on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes In New York, Burns Six-Year-Old Boy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are these people who are demanding ever-thinner phones, anyway? Most people I know have their phones inside of thick cases (Otterbox etc.) because the phones themselves are too thin and fragile already. Give me a removable and replaceable battery over a thinner phone, any day of the week.

  16. Re: "Initial Position" Error on Data Entry Blunders Force Air Asia Pilots To Land in Melbourne Instead of Malaysia (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming you mean ADS-B, you can build a capable receiver for around $150, but you won't be putting that on a commercial aircraft. An FAA or ICAO equivalent certified ADS-B in/out transceiver will cost you a few thousand dollars.

  17. Re:High Voltage? on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately we still have to do it that way in Kansas, there are only 3 abortion clinics in the whole state.

  18. Re:What Employee Works Without Pay? on WrkRiot Collapses Amongst Allegations of Fraud (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the real question, how the fuck did a small startup get a bunch of work visas?

    The same way most companies get them, they lied to the government, and like most companies they won't face any consequences for doing so.

  19. Re:How many times do you screw up... on FDA Finds Flaws In Theranos' Zika Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How many times does a company like this need to screw up before being forcibly shut down by the feds?

    If the CEO was a man instead of the poster child for "women STEM CEOs," it would have been shut down a long time ago.

  20. Re:For what, the last 20 years? on European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They earned much of that profit in the United States, and it should be taxed as such, yes. I don't get to send my salary off to a bank account in Ireland and magically render it untaxable. Why should Apple (and Google and Facebook and...) be able to do that?

  21. Re:Ban drug ad's like most developed nations do! on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is going out and buying an EpiPen because they saw an advert for one. This is fundamental life saving medicine.

    Why are there commercials for EpiPen, then? They've been advertising pretty heavily in recent months, I see that commercial with the teenage bass player pretty much every day. Considering it's a life saving medicine and they're apparently the only source for it, why bother advertising? The obvious answer is it must drive sales, which means people do see the commercial and "ask their doctor if EpiPen is right for them."

  22. Re:FBI HORSE SHIT AGAIN === SOCIAL ENGINEERING on New SWEET32 Crypto Attacks Speed Up Deprecation of 3DES, Blowfish (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Your suggestion to keep an incorrect clock is complete bullshit and achieves the opposite of what you claim. Most peoples' clocks are accurate within a few seconds of one another. If your clock is reasonably true, your timestamp gets lost in the noise among millions of other users who have the same timestamp. An accurate system clock is one less unique data point that can be used against you. If you intentionally skew your clock way off, you're much easier to track across different services because your computer is the only one claiming that timestamp.

    I don't know what your motivation is in recommending this nonsense, but frankly it sounds like the only FBI on Slashdot is you, trying to trick people into being easily tracked.

  23. Re:The MS Merry Go Round. on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 - the gift that keeps on taking.

    Linux: Free as in speech.
    BSD: Free as in beer.
    Windows 10: Free as in herpes.

  24. Re:Peter Thiel didn't bankrupt Gawker on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Pay some nobody a small lump of cash to leak the video to a news outlet with big pockets (but not so big you think you can't win in court), then sue the news outlet.

    Still, that only works if you find a "news outlet" morally depraved enough to post the video. You don't see Hulk suing anyone else who reported about the scandal, because while they may have passed along unflattering quotes about Hulk's genitalia, none of them broke the law and published the video.

  25. Re:Peter Thiel didn't bankrupt Gawker on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You may want billionaires to dictate who can and who can't write the news. Me? I'd rather not live in a thielocracy.

    Gawker wasn't under any threat from Thiel when they were writing the news. If they had stuck to writing the news, instead of committing crimes, defying a judge, and making kiddy porn jokes during legal depositions, they'd still be publishing today.